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<h2><a id="30771" linktype="page">Adivasis in Panna tiger park: dammed futures</a></h2><p>First, they were moved to make space for tigers. Now it’s the Ken-Betwa river linking project that is grabbing forest dwellers’ land. The uncertainty about compensation, displacement dates and destination, is happening all over again</p><h5>November 28, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/priti-david/">Priti David</a></h5>

Adivasis in Panna tiger park: dammed futures

<h2><a id="29704" linktype="page">Kuno&#39;s folk: missing the wood and the trees</a></h2><p>Thousands of Sahariya Adivasis who have lived here for centuries and depended on the forest for their livelihoods, are now banned from entering. September 2024 marks two years since the state shut them out for a cheetah safari park</p><h5>September 3, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/priti-david/">Priti David</a></h5>

Kuno's folk: missing the wood and the trees

<h2><a id="26840" linktype="page">Kuno’s caged cheetahs and exiled Adivasis</a></h2><p>Kuno is now a hunting ground for green political optics. Money and state influence are powering a cheetah safari in the guise of a conservation project. For the hundreds of displaced people who vacated the forest for the cats still primarily in cages, finding jobs, schools, firewood and even drinking water is a daily challenge</p><h5>February 6, 2024 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/priti-david/">Priti David</a></h5>

Kuno’s caged cheetahs and exiled Adivasis

<h2><a id="24898" linktype="page">In Bagribari: the river takes it all</a></h2><p>The annual monsoon flooding of the Puthimari river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, is a constant source of anxiety for those who live on its banks. Flood waters destroy farmland, standing crops and even looms, leaving many residents with no option but wage labour. Expensive embankments don&#39;t help<br/></p><h5>September 20, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/wahidur-rahman/">Wahidur Rahman</a> and <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/pankaj-das/">Pankaj Das</a></h5>

In Bagribari: the river takes it all

<h2><a id="24665" linktype="page">‘Who drowned Delhi?’</a></h2><p>The capital is getting a facelift as it gears up to host the G20 meet on September 8, 2023. But the sprucing up is selective. Those residents of Delhi who have been displaced by the recent Yamuna floods and on-going development projects on its banks, are now living on public roads, and told to ‘stay out of sight’<br/></p><h5>September 6, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/shalini-singh/">Shalini Singh</a></h5>

‘Who drowned Delhi?’

<h2><a id="24573" linktype="page">Mumbai&#39;s Adivasis stand up to be counted</a></h2><p>On World Indigenous People’s Day, Adivasis who live in and around Mumbai’s Aarey forest gathered for a show of strength and solidarity<br/></p><h5>September 2, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/ishita-pradeep/">Ishita Pradeep</a></h5>

Mumbai's Adivasis stand up to be counted

<h2><a id="23826" linktype="page">When elephants come calling in Birbhum</a></h2><p>In Patalpur village, it&#39;s only the family of farmers, Ujjwal and Chandana Das who are still holding out against annual raids that devastate their crops and destroy their home. The rest of the village has left</p><h5>July 28, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/sayan-sarkar/">Sayan Sarkar</a></h5><p></p>

When elephants come calling in Birbhum

<h2><a id="23728" linktype="page">‘Where will we go leaving everything behind?’</a><br/></h2><p>At the Deocha Pachami coal mine in West Bengal, women are at the forefront of the protest to save their land and livelihoods. An artist tells us the story of their determined fight through a series of illustrations<br/></p><h5>July 6, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/labani-jangi/">Labani Jangi</a></h5>

‘Where will we go leaving everything behind?’

<h2><a id="18740" linktype="page">In Kuno Park – no one gets the lion’s share</a></h2><p></p><p>It’s been 23 years since mainly Sahariya Adivasi and Dalit families in forest villages of Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district were displaced from their homes to make way for lions…that have still not arrived</p><h5>July 4, 2022 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/priti-david/">Priti David</a></h5><p></p>

In Kuno Park – no one gets the lion’s share

<h2><a id="17928" linktype="page">In Kuno: Cheetahs in, Adivasis out</a></h2><p></p><p>The Sahariya Adivasis of Bagcha village in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district will be displaced to make a home for the African cheetah – a move fraught with livelihood loss and ecological risk</p><h5>April 25, 2022 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/priti-david/">Priti David</a></h5><p></p>

In Kuno: Cheetahs in, Adivasis out

<h2><a id="17652" linktype="page">A Palghar village battles a national highway</a></h2><p></p><p>The Warli Adivasis of Nimbavali were tricked into giving up their land and homes for the Mumbai-Vadodara expressway, but the project tore through the village and the compensation was inadequate</p><h5>March 16, 2022 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/mamta-pared/">Mamata Pared</a></h5><p></p>

A Palghar village battles a national highway

<h2><a id="16341" linktype="page">Chased by development in Chikapar</a></h2><p></p><p>Little Chikapar in Koraput, Odisha, was probably the only village in the world to have taken on the Army, Air Force and Navy – and lost</p><h5>November 18, 2021 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/p-sainath/">P. Sainath</a></h5><p></p>

Chased by development in Chikapar

<h2><a id="15615" linktype="page">When the mountain crashed down on Mirgaon</a></h2><p></p><p>Many weeks after a landslide flattened their village, the people of Mirgaon in Maharashtra are still staying in a local school. This is their third displacement – the first was by the Koyna Dam – and they are exhausted</p><h5>September 9, 2021 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/hrushikesh-patil/">Hrushikesh Patil</a></h5><p></p>

When the mountain crashed down on Mirgaon

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/mudumalai-adivasis---displaced-by-deceit/">Mudumalai Adivasis – displaced by deceit</a></h2><p></p><p>Adivasi families of the seven hamlets within the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve&#39;s buffer zone speak of coercion and cheating after they took a compensation package and moved out of their ancestral homes</p><p></p><h5>January 21, 2020 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/priti-david/">Priti David</a></h5><p></p><p></p>

Mudumalai Adivasis – displaced by deceit

<h2><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/bridge-over-troubled-squatters/">Bridge over troubled squatters</a></h2><p></p><p>A month after the decades-old Tallah basti in north Kolkata was demolished to make way for bridge repairs, the families who were shunted out to transit sheds continue to seek fair rehabilitation</p><p></p><h5>December 12, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/smita-khator/">Smita Khator</a></h5>

Bridge over troubled squatters

<h2><a id="6714" linktype="page">Pardhi school bulldozed by Prosperity Highway</a></h2><p>A school in Amravati district, Maharashtra, started by a Phanse Pardhi teacher for kids from his long-stigmatised and impoverished community, was demolished on June 6, leaving them anxious and uncertain</p><h5>June 17, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/jyoti-shinoli">Jyoti Shinoli</a></h5>

Pardhi school bulldozed by Prosperity Highway

<h2><a id="6382" linktype="page">Flattened by Prosperity in Chiradpada</a></h2><p></p><p>Four Katkari Adivasi families living for decades just outside Chiradpada village in Thane district could soon lose their huts and livelihoods when a viaduct of the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Highway runs through their hamlet</p><h4>March 27, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/jyoti-shinoli">Jyoti Shinoli</a></h4><p></p>

Flattened by Prosperity in Chiradpada

<h2><a id="6359" linktype="page">‘At least here we have our land’</a></h2><p></p><p>The residents of Rampura, a small village in the buffer zone of the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, have been asked to move. But, they say, with no allocation of alternative land, where will we go?</p><h4>March 22, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/maithreyi-kamalanathan">Maithreyi Kamalanathan</a></h4><p></p><h2></h2>

‘At least here we have our land’

<h2><b><a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/living-on-the-streets-looking-for-work">Living
on the streets, looking for work</a></b></h2><p>On the cold winter streets of the country&#39;s capital, seasonal migrants from Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and other states set up temporary &#39;homes&#39; and try and find work at construction sites and other places</p><h4>February 07, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/purusottam-thakur">Purusottam Thakur</a></h4><p></p><p></p><p></p>

Living on the streets, looking for work

<h2><a id="6069" linktype="page">Soaring land prices, falling farm fortunes</a><br/></h2><p>With the Andhra government&#39;s takeover of land for Amaravati, many landless villagers have lost farm work, forcing young men to seek wages at sand quarries near the Krishna river, and leaving women unemployed</p><h4>January 21, 2019 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4>

Soaring land prices, falling farm fortunes

<h2><a id="5585" linktype="page">‘Let the state give us the jobs it promised’</a></h2><p>With the Andhra government&#39;s takeover of land for Amaravati, many landless villagers have lost farm work, forcing young men to seek wages at sand quarries near the Krishna river, and leaving women unemployed</p><h4>November 13, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4><h2></h2>

‘Let the state give us the jobs it promised’

<h2><a id="5532" linktype="page">New capital city, old mechanisms of division</a></h2><p>Displaced farmers with fertile ‘assigned’ land they have cultivated for decades at the site of Andhra&#39;s new capital Amaravati, are asking why they are being given less compensation than farmers with land titles</p><h4>October 29, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4>

New capital city, old mechanisms of division

<h2><a id="5453" linktype="page">‘This is not a people’s capital’</a></h2><p></p><p>Amaravati, the mega-city coming up in Andhra amid grand claims by the government, will displace thousands of farmers from fertile land. While many are resisting, others are giving in to land pooling schemes</p><h4>October 5, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4><p></p>

‘This is not a people’s capital’

<h2><a id="5366" linktype="page">Powerless in a power-surplus state</a></h2><p></p><p>Thousands of villagers in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh will have to leave their land and livelihood to make way for a nuclear power plant – when the state has enough energy and the new capacity will cost a lot</p><h4>September 14, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4><p></p>

Powerless in a power-surplus state

<h2><a id="5255" linktype="page">&#39;As if we had neither a village nor a country’</a></h2><p></p><p>The Warlis have lived in the national park at Borivali in Mumbai for decades without adequate water or other facilities, fearing relocation. And in the struggle for a livelihood, they have also lost their distinctive art</p><h4>August 22, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/apekshita-varshney">Apekshita Varshney</a></h4>

'As if we had neither a village nor a country’

<h2><a id="5235" linktype="page">Displaced by the dam, homeless in Hukumpeta</a></h2><p></p><p>Two years after leaving Pydipaka village to make way for the Polavaram project, six Dalit families are still waiting for houses, while the Adivasis of Devaragondi have been uprooted from their traditional homeground</p><h4>August 16, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4><p></p>

Displaced by the dam, homeless in Hukumpeta

<h2><a id="5139" linktype="page">‘Our houses are vanishing. Nobody cares’</a></h2><p></p><p>For decades, villagers from Ghoramara island in the Sundarbans have been migrating to Sagar island because the river and rain keep washing away their houses. They have received little help from the state</p><h4>July 20, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/urvashi-sarkar">Urvashi Sarkar</a></h4><p></p>

‘Our houses are vanishing. Nobody cares’

<h2><a id="5135" linktype="page">Polavaram’s dispossessed march with hope</a></h2><p>From July 10 to 16, a determined group of Adivasis marched from Cheeravalli village in West Godavari district to Eluru, protesting against the Polavaram project, which will displace and destroy their communities</p><h4>July 19, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4><h2></h2>

Polavaram’s dispossessed march with hope

<h2><a id="4907" linktype="page">Pydipaka families: and then there were ten</a></h2><p>Hundreds of villages will vanish over time due to the Polavaram project on the Godavari. In Pydipaka, ten families are refusing to move, demanding from the state at least the legally mandated resettlement package<br/></p><h4>May 28, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4>

Pydipaka families: and then there were ten

<h2><a id="4450" linktype="page">Caged in concrete: an Adivasi urban nightmare</a></h2><p>An Adivasi village within the megacity of Mumbai has been razed to make way for a Metro car depot, its inhabitants herded into matchbox-sized flats in an SRA building<br/></p><h4>March 6, 2018 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/jyoti-shinoli">Jyoti Shinoli</a></h4>

Caged in concrete: an Adivasi urban nightmare

<h2><a id="4035" linktype="page">‘Many families just vanished…’</a></h2><p>Adivasi and OBC families thrown off their land for the Bhatsa irrigation project in Maharashtra’s Thane district still wait for justice almost half a century later </p><h4>November 16, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/jyoti-shinoli">Jyoti Shinoli</a></h4>

‘Many families just vanished…’

<h2><a id="3926" linktype="page">On the ‘prosperity highway&#39; to penury?</a></h2><p></p><p>Many in Marathwada are resisting the proposed Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Highway, which the CM claims will transform the state&#39;s economy – though it will actually displace thousands of farmers in 354 villages</p><h4>October 25, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/parth-mn">Parth M.N.</a></h4><p></p>

On the ‘prosperity highway' to penury?

<h2><a id="3890" linktype="page">Unquiet on the riverfront</a></h2><p>The fishing communities on the banks of the Krishna in Andhra Pradesh are being forced to leave their homes and livelihoods due to the state’s many riverside projects around Vijayawada and the &#39;new&#39; Amaravati <br/></p><h4>October 18, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-maganti">Rahul Maganti</a></h4>

Unquiet on the riverfront

<h2><a id="3630" linktype="page">The fallen homes of Anantapur</a></h2><p></p><p>A sudden demolition on August 3 in Vijayanagar colony of Anantapur town in Andhra Pradesh has left entire families – many of them daily wage workers or migrants – homeless and living out in the open</p><h4>August 11, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/rahul-m">Rahul M.</a></h4><p></p>

The fallen homes of Anantapur

<h2><a id="2458" linktype="page">Struggles of the sandbar people</a></h2><p>Hasan Ali is one of 2.4 million people who live on impermanent ‘chars’ or sandbars on the Brahmaputra – without basic necessities, frequently shifting home, their lives dictated by the flux of the mighty river</p><h4>January 6, 2017 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/ratna-bharali-talukdar">Ratna Bharali Talukdar</a></h4>

Struggles of the sandbar people

<h2><a id="135" linktype="page">Life in the company of coal</a></h2><p>“The companies have destroyed the environment, agreed. But the government gives them the right to do it.”<br/></p><h4>January 26, 2015 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/parth-mn">Parth M.N.</a></h4>

Life in the company of coal

<h2><a id="609" linktype="page">The poet-singer of Dhinkia</a></h2><p>Back To South Korea (Go Back POSCO)</p><h4>Sepember 20, 2014 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/purusottam-thakur">Purusottam Thakur</a></h4><h2></h2>

The poet-singer of Dhinkia

<h2><a id="491" linktype="page">Worshipping a steel rath in Orissa</a></h2><p>Trying to criminalise protesters seems a standard operating procedure in dealing with anti-displacement struggles in Orissa and beyond</p><h4>July 25, 2014 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/authors/p-sainath">P. Sainath</a></h4><h5><p></p></h5><h2></h2>

Worshipping a steel rath in Orissa

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